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 290 THIRTY-NIN TH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 270. 1866. Remaining Sec. 2. And be itfurt/wr enacted, That the sectionsand parts of sec- {)*“dS;d8j,°· *;°°*° tions of land which by the aforesaid grant shall remain m the United ¤$;,°,;°u°iB,€:pi., States, within ten miles on each side of said road, shall not be sold for mi5¤im¤¤¤ price- less than double the minimum price of public lands when sold: Provided, r;’_‘;E2;Q§O;‘“d"" That actual bona fide settlers under the pre-emption laws of the United liiws; States may, after due proof of settlement, improvement, and occupation, as now provided by law, purchase the same at the price fixed for said lands at the date of such settlement, improvement, and occupation : Prounder me vided, also, That settlers under provisions of the homestead act, who make l‘°’“°“°“‘l “°“· their settlement after the passage of this act and comply with the terms and requirements of said act, shall be entitled, within the said limits of ten miles, to patents for an amount not exceeding eighty acres each. Conditions of Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the grant of lands hereby this Z*¤¤°· made is upon condition that said company, after the construction of its road, shall keep it in repair and use, and shall at all times transport troops, munitions of war, supplies, and public stores upon its road for the government of the United States, free from all cost or charge therefor to the government, when required to do so by any department thereoh And Gr¤¤\¤d l¤¤d¤ the lands hereby granted shall inure to the benefit of said company, as tay;-';;";f;al;;?§; follows: When the governor of the State of Kansas shall certify that any fouows. section of ten consecutive miles of said road is completed in a good, substantial, and workmanlike manner as a first-class railroad, then the said Secretary of the Interior shall issue to the said company patents for so many sections of the land herein granted within the limits above named, and coterminous with said completed section hereinbefbre granted; and when certificates of the governor aforesaid shall be presented to said Secretary of the completion, as aforesaid, of each successive section of ten consecutive miles of said road, the said Secretary shall in like manner _ issue to said company patents for the land for each of said sections of cogging road as in the first instance, until said road shall be completed: Provided, years, umm];. That if said road is not completed within ten years from the date of the ¢dl¤¤ acceptance of the grant hereinbefbre made, the lands remaining unpatmw"' ented shall revert to the United States. when maps of Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That as soon as said company shall mute of rom] me file with the Secretary of the Interior maps of its line, designating the route 6l9¢:hl¤¤dS 2° be thereof, it shall be the duty of of said Secretary to withdraw from the xiiriigtaflvn mm market the lands granted by this act, in such manner as may be best calculated to effect the purposes of this act and subserve the public interest. ignited States Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the United States mail shall gg51m b° °““" be transported on said road, and under the direction of the Post Office ` Department, at such price as Congress may by law provide: Provided, That until such price is fixed by law the Postmaster-General shall have power to fix the compensation. Rishi ¤f W9! Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the right of way through the fgiggignwgélgor public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted to said Pacific Railroad themilroad. Company, southern branch, its successors and assigns, for the construction of a railroad as proposed : and the right is hereby given to said corpora- Materials for tion to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road °°E?:;;’;?’graut material for the construction thereoh Said way is granted to said rail- Ofdgm 0gw,y_ road to the extent of one hundred fect in width on each side of said Grounds for road where it may pass through the public domain; also all necessary “°'m°"°* &°' ground for station buildings, work-shops, depots, machine·sh0ps, switches, side-tracks, turn·tables, and watenstations. Aocrzgemce of See. 7. And be it further enacted, That the acceptance of the terms, mg and witllin southern branch, shall be signified in writing, under the corporate seal of 0¤¤ Y6"- the said company, duly executed pursuant to the direction of its board of directors first had and obtained, which acceptance shall be made within
 * “;·b° { conditions, and impositions of this act by the said Pacific Railroad Com pany